The arrest – and what has happened since
In spite of warning signs in two school districts, Jon White continued teaching in Urbana – until the mother of the first child to talk to Thomas Paine Elementary School Principal Janice Bradley about the incidents in White's classroom after school mentioned the situation to a teacher from another school.
That teacher told her husband, a University of Illinois police officer, who called Urbana investigator Duane Maxey around 8 a.m. Jan. 29, 2007.
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